Period:Qing dynasty Production date:c. 1735-c. 1750
Materials:paper
Technique:woodblock, colour,
Subjects:furniture/woodwork
Dimensions:Height: 37.50 centimetres (Royal mount) Width: 30 centimetres
Description:
Multi-colour woodblock print in ink on paper Objects in this print include a yellow Buddha’s hand fruit in the foreground, a flower vase, a seal, a painted scroll and a square bronze vessel.
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![图片[1]-print BM-1906-1128-0.22-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/43/mid_00049031_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-print BM-1906-1128-0.22-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/43/mid_00091810_001.jpg)
![图片[3]-print BM-1906-1128-0.22-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/43/mid_00648771_001.jpg)
Comments:Objects shown in the print are either desirable for collectors or carry an auspicious meaning. The Buddha’s hand fruit is a strongly scented, inedible citrus fruit, used as a New Year offering, as it was believed to bring good fortune to the household. The depiction of precious metal and stone objects implies the wish for a long life.Luk Yu-ping 17/08/17:Anne Farrer dates the Ding prints to 1735-50. Previously dated to 17th century, then changed to 1700-1750 in ‘The Printed Image in China’. Jones 1990Woodblock print of Chinese 17th-century collectionsThis shows a group of copies of ancient Chinese bronzes which includes a fang ding similar to registration no. 1988,0518.1. The flowers depicted with the bronzes suggest a setting in a private house.This print illustrates the depth of interest in collecting during the seventeenth century and may have served to attract aspiring collectors. The idea of representing groups of antiquities and other collectors’ items in prints dates back to the first half of seventeenth century, when such arrangements of objects are found on decorated colour-printed letter-papers which were produced as books for the collector’s shelf.See also registration no. 1928,0323.36.
Materials:paper
Technique:woodblock, colour,
Subjects:furniture/woodwork
Dimensions:Height: 37.50 centimetres (Royal mount) Width: 30 centimetres
Description:
Multi-colour woodblock print in ink on paper Objects in this print include a yellow Buddha’s hand fruit in the foreground, a flower vase, a seal, a painted scroll and a square bronze vessel.
IMG
Comments:Objects shown in the print are either desirable for collectors or carry an auspicious meaning. The Buddha’s hand fruit is a strongly scented, inedible citrus fruit, used as a New Year offering, as it was believed to bring good fortune to the household. The depiction of precious metal and stone objects implies the wish for a long life.Luk Yu-ping 17/08/17:Anne Farrer dates the Ding prints to 1735-50. Previously dated to 17th century, then changed to 1700-1750 in ‘The Printed Image in China’. Jones 1990Woodblock print of Chinese 17th-century collectionsThis shows a group of copies of ancient Chinese bronzes which includes a fang ding similar to registration no. 1988,0518.1. The flowers depicted with the bronzes suggest a setting in a private house.This print illustrates the depth of interest in collecting during the seventeenth century and may have served to attract aspiring collectors. The idea of representing groups of antiquities and other collectors’ items in prints dates back to the first half of seventeenth century, when such arrangements of objects are found on decorated colour-printed letter-papers which were produced as books for the collector’s shelf.See also registration no. 1928,0323.36.
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![[Qing Dynasty] British female painter—Elizabeth Keith, using woodblock prints to record China from the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China—1915-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/image-191x300.png)
